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LIFE ISSUES
Australia: Abortion Through the Ninth Month—Culture of Death Brooks No Dissent
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/australia-abortion-through-ninth-month.html
Spanish abortion supporters call for church burnings
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14113
Teenager ends pregnancy on abortion boat without parental permission
https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/15645/teenager-ends-pregnancy-on-abortion-boat-without-parental-permission
Anti-Catholic Bias in Mercy-Killing Campaign?
https://www.ncregister.com/site/article/16222/
Those backing reproductive health agenda are making an all-out bid to displace the church as the conscience of the Philippines
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/the_filipino_front_in_the_culture_wars/
Parental notification ballot proposal leads in California
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14146
Football Legend Would Pick His Down Syndrome Son Over ‘Normal’ Child
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37761
Brazilian priests distribute propaganda in favor of pro-abortion politicians
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14115
Human Dignity by Russell Shaw – Radical autonomy is a secularist myth. Human dignity supplies a vastly sounder basis for respecting others.
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4756&Itemid=48
FINANCIAL CRISIS
Legatus members find faith helps them cope with Wall Street upheaval
https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=7052
Towards World Economy 2.0 – Americans are sure to resist a European call to defer to an international economic bureaucracy in December’s global summit.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/towards_world_economy_20/
`We Need Recession,’ Says Morris of `Trillion Dollar Meltdown’
https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=avAz_l.F7W6c&refer=home
Government Ownership in Banks Could Cause More Problems than It Solves
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37911
Political Corruption ‘Major Factor’ in Financial Crisis, Poll Shows
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37919
Is the Era of Big Government Back? Don’t bet on it by William J. Stuntz
https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/723bxozr.asp
$700 Taxpayer Bailout Gives Hollywood $470 Million Tax Cut
https://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37849
Stimulus-palooza: It never ends By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/21/stimulus-palooza-it-never-ends/
Hey, chumps: Why are you still paying your mortgages? By Michelle Malkin
https://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/15/hey-chumps-why-are-you-still-paying-your-mortgages/
Financial meltdown defrocks deceit of man-made global warming
https://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5734
Europe’s climate revolt – European Union has pulled the emergency brake on green policies.
https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2008/10/20/europe-s-climate-revolt.aspx
HOMOSEXUALITY
Scandal: Retired United Methodist Bishops Take Part in Non-Official Homosexual Ordination Ceremony
https://www.christiannewswire.com/news/815538400.html
California Clergy Missing in Action on Prop 8
https://townhall.com/columnists/JanetMLaRue/2008/10/20/california_clergy_missing_in_action_on_prop_8
Liberal Activist on California Prop 8: If Only Lots of Old Voters Died Before Election
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/10/21/liberal-activist-california-prop-8-if-only-lots-old-voters-died-electi
This is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/call-for-organ-conscription-begins.html
My personal struggles with homosexuality.
https://www.aish.com/spirituality/odysseys/The_Straight_Path_Home.asp
CANADA
Ezra Levant: A new low for ‘human rights’ – Canadian Human Rights Commission is prosecuting a former Member of Parliament for politically incorrect mail that he sent to constituents five years ago.
https://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/10/24/ezra-levant-a-new-low-for-human-rights.aspx
All Canada’s federal political parties see drop in votes, drop in dollars
https://www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=2008/october/20/drop_votes_dollars/&c=2
Growing influence of Canadian billionaire Paul Desmarais
https://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=ba58198a-0bbd-44ed-97e1-a7d0fea659fd
Author delivers high-voltage critique of Paul Desmarais Sr.—the man behind Power Corp.
https://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2e3cff7f-05a2-44fc-afc1-616c5c40f64f
Comedy skit video: US Liberal Democrats consider moving to Canada
https://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid988092926?bctid=1842856410
RELIGION
A $60-million bounty on a Coptic leader is just one sign of the threats facing Egypt’s Christians
https://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=901880
Expert Vatican psychiatrist: ‘Celibacy is a provocation’ to a superficial world
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14106
Bishops, North of the Border by David WarreN
https://insidecatholic.com/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4742&Itemid=48
Singing priests interview
https://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/23/music.priests/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
Singing priests video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPa07jJ7nYw
The Church in Vietnam Isn’t Afraid. But the Communist Regime Is
https://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/208845?eng=y
There’s a God-shaped hole in Westminster – Today’s politicians – whose favourite summer reading was The God Delusion – have never been more fearful of faith
https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/rachel_sylvester/article4981344.ece
Government of the eastern Indian state of Orissa said it would refuse to compensate Christians in Orissa for the destruction of numerous churches during the recent spate of violence that has left at least 58 Christians dead and 50,000 homeless.
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=848
MISCELLANEOUS
Castigated for Self Defense Against Attacking Bear
https://www.wesleyjsmith.com/blog/2008/10/castigated-for-self-defense-against.html
U.K.: Boy Scouts as Young as 10 to be Given Condoms
https://www.realclearreligion.com/index_files/394f9d8eb3de486ae725c33028c21314-492.html#unique-entry-id-492
The world jean giant is hardly alone but Levi Strauss is leading the charge in a new raunchy ad campaign that goes one step beyond.
https://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/not_your_fathers_levis/
San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution
https://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93V4U0O0&show_article=1
Windows 7: A Turning Point for Microsoft?
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332970,00.asp